I know this is old, but I may have found a small solution. I have tried this a few times, and I've gotten some adventures to work. So, when I came to France, I noticed right as I got there a mailman was putting mail in the mailbox attached to the adventure board. I thought that was a little odd. Then, as I checked an adventure, I got one, it worked, whatever. Thereafter, as usual, the normal glitch kicked in and there was no adventure. I thought about the fact that there was a mailman before, and the little flag on the mailbox had gone up. Then I thought, maybe if you just try to smelt a metal or cut a gem, that would raise up the flag, and an adventure would happen. So far, it's worked 3 times. They seem to be the more minor adventures, but what I'm hoping for is that when the mailman shows up, it will kick it in to the bigger adventures. Thus far, it's still in trial mode, but I could be onto something here...